Re:Uber: A Feisty Start-Up Is Met With Regulatory Snarl
by DannyBee on Monday December 03, 2012 @04:03AM
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In most cities?
No, he can't, as long as he's not willing to charge their prices.
He has no leverage past making bad PR for the cities.
Being friendly isn't going to get him anywhere with most of these types of regulatory snags.
It's very hard to negotiate with folks when what they want is your death. The compromise is what, exactly? That they only half-kill you for now until the rest of your support base erodes?
He's playing a giant game of chicken, because sometimes that's the only way to hope to win.
But, in the end, as the saying goes "You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt."
The most likely outcome is status quo stays status quo, unless Uber can make enough noise/etc to matter.
It's very hard to negotiate with folks when what they want is your death. The compromise is what, exactly? That they only half-kill you for now until the rest of your support base erodes?
He's playing a giant game of chicken, because sometimes that's the only way to hope to win.
But, in the end, as the saying goes "You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt."
The most likely outcome is status quo stays status quo, unless Uber can make enough noise/etc to matter.